Andrew Lynn

#OnThisDay - 25 March 1719, the building of Hollytrees House, here in #Colchester begun a year earlier, was completed at a cost of £2000 - equivalent to around £400,000 at today's prices. More: colchester.cimuseums.org.uk/visit/hollytre… essexarchivesonline.co.uk/ViewCatalogue.…

@martgathercole Tollesbury!

What kind of an idiot drives 14 miles, to get a bus 14 miles to then walk 14 miles before driving home for 14 miles🙋🏼‍♂️🥾🚶🏼‍♂️Essex coastal walking😉

Why isn’t Trump asking his Board of Peace members to help him open up the strait of hormuz? Why is he begging all the Western democracies who he has been insulting the last year to help him?

My latest column for @HistoryToday is about the amazing Anglo-Saxon carvings at Deerhurst - including this angel, who seems to have stepped straight out of the uncanny Old English poem 'Andreas' historytoday.com/archive/out-ma…

City Pub of the Year 2026 and Overall Pub of the Year, going forward to the Essex heats of the national competition: The Ale House Colchester #camra #poty

And we're off! #BeattheStreet starts today in #Colchester! Earn as many points as possible by walking, wheeling or cycling between Beat Boxes from 11 March - 22 April. beatthestreet.me/colchester @ActiveEssex @yourcolchester @incolchester_ @VisitColchester @ColMuseums @Essex_CC

Judith, countess of Flanders, died #OTD in 1094. She was widowed when Tostig, earl of Northumbria, died at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. Symeon of Durham says she 'loved St Cuthbert even more than did her husband'. One of Judith's gospel-books 📸The Morgan Library & Museum

To any young kid reading this… I’ve doubted myself in every league I’ve ever played in. Ryman Prem. Conference South. League Two. League One. Championship… And even right before my first Premier League start last night. That’s not weakness. That’s being human. That’s being alive. When I was growing up, I thought Premier League players were superhuman. Like they never felt doubt. Like they never felt nerves. The truth is…. it’s often the opposite. Social media won’t tell you that sometimes you step out there with no confidence. That’s normal. That’s ok! You now have to then step out there with courage. Confidence feels good. Courage doesn’t. But you do it anyway. Show courage enough times…. You build confidence. Here’s the mindset that’s carried me for 31 years. When it goes well: I worked for it. I earned it. Well done. Watch it back. Get better. When it doesn’t: I know I prepared the best I could. It didn’t go exactly to plan. That’s football. But Well done. Watch it back. Get better. That simple recipe gave me a special moment last night. Leading the team out. Playing alongside a group that fights for every ball. Celebrates tackles. Gives everything for the city of Sunderland. And sharing it with supporters who never gave up, even after four tough seasons in League One. So if you’re a young player feeling doubt… Low confidence… Or like you don’t believe in yourself… You’re not alone. Every player feels it. Confidence isn’t something you’re given. It’s something you build. Bit by bit. Day by day. With courage. With work. With learning. Anything worth building takes time. But that’s what makes it so worthwhile! Thank you @SunderlandAFC ❤️🤍

DON'T BUY TRAIN TICKETS IN ADVANCE! On 1 April, govt is quietly changing the National Rail Conditions of Travel. Off-Peak & Anytime tickets become non-refundable after 23:59 the day BEFORE you travel. If you wake up & find your event cancelled, NO REFUNDS, even on £100+ tickets.

Congratulations if you recognised this as brickwork below the tank on #Jumbo, Britain's largest municipal watertower Built in 1883 and decommissioned in 1984, the grade ll* listed tower is about to undergo a multi million pound restoration. More: jumbo.org.uk

For those of us who treat anything and everything uttered by Mr Farage with suspicion, here is the official site for checking boat arrivals! gov.uk/government/pub…

The poet WH Auden was born #OTD 21 February 1907. An entrance board at his old public school at Holt, Norfolk. How he'd have loved that! He was an older contemporary there of Benjamin Britten. Accused of cowardice for going to the US early in WWII, he famously replied that he knew all about Fascism, having spent five years at Greshams.

828,500 people in Britain speak Welsh...

(1/10 🧵) If you live in NY, you may see a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

World Cup final ticket price in the "Supporter Value Tier"? $4,185. FIFA signing off the email "Thanks for being a true fan"? Priceless.

If my reading of this is correct, and we are talking about that stretch of Mill Lane, Droxford which according to OS Maps runs through the River Meon they, OS Maps have clearly marked it as a "Bridleway," and that my friends is a very different thing from a "Byway open to all traffic." As govt confirmed in the HoL "Any person riding an off-road motorised vehicle... on a public... bridleway is committing a criminal offence". Seems pretty clear to me.

The one thing I can always tell about a child when I teach them

January 26th (1361) Brothers William & Thomas Okele of West Mersea were cleared of ‘Owling’ (smuggling wool at night),although their boat was confiscated. It was illegal to export wool without paying tax. This is the earliest record of ‘smuggling’ charges by the authorities.

You cannot spell hatred without a red hat. Funny how that keeps proving itself.

This is how far humans have travelled from Earth since 1972, in the first image. It has become a fairly routine commute. Compare that to how far they are now going to travel, aboard Artemis II, in the second image: